Stylistics vs Lexicology - What's the difference?
stylistics | lexicology |
(linguistics) The study of literary style, and how it changes within different contexts.
(uncountable, linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.
* 1949 Journal of Theological Studies
(countable) A specific theory concerning the lexicon.
As nouns the difference between stylistics and lexicology
is that stylistics is the study of literary style, and how it changes within different contexts while lexicology is the part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.stylistics
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(-)lexicology
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(wikipedia lexicology)Noun
- The fifth is devoted to doctrine; the sixth and seventh to remarks on syntax and lexicology respectively.
